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create table person

CREATE TABLE person ( name TEXT, age INTEGER, portfolio INTEGER, PRIMARY KEY market_position CONTINUUM {buffett - lumpen} ascribed_gender BINARY {"M"/"F"}, gender_identity FREETEXT, ascribed_ethnicity UNFREETEXT, ethnic_identity UNFREETEXT, extraversion CONTINUUM openness CONTINUUM conscientiousness CONTINUUM agreeableness CONTINUUM neuroticism CONTINUUM e.g. - spiders - dentist - gays - people thriftiness CONTINUUM {"cheapass"-""} disability CONTINUUM (debilitating-borderline, visible-invisible, legitimated-not privilege INTEGER. NEG INTEGER in Context:{Left-wing}, professed_likes {Giorgio_Agamben, Merzbow & social_justice} likes {Ken_Follett, Cyndi_Lauper & steak} knowledge COMBINATORIAL, f(memory, scepticism, creativity) credentials YEARS_EDUCATION, rationality PROB, relation_w_god LIKERT, morals CAT {Y/N/Quasi-realism}, politics PARTITION {IF L then spurn, IF R then belittle} remaini

mathemiscellany

(c) Edel Rodriguez (2012) Those whom heaven helps, call the kin of heaven. They do not learn it by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not come to it with reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. (Those who cannot do so will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven.) – Zhuangzi The thing about doing maths - that is, "higher" maths, the kind of maths that doesn't have or need real-life instances, that in its purest Form doesn't need even a mental instance - is that you're teetering on the edge of senselessness all the time. It is the zero-gravity circus of the mind. Proofs are tightropes, sure, but you can never tell if you're really on one until you get to the assumed other side, and look back, and, in my case, find yourself not smugly bowing to the audience, but crashing to the ground, impacting a surface which is not in fact there. But decelerating painfully all the same. So people like me